Rewrite the Technological Landscape

In mid-September, Foster made it clear in an interview that he will go to Dafeng Group. Of course, he will not officially take office until after the expiration of the non-compete agreement.

At the same time, some media have taken photos of Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer going to the Gale Group.

At this time, the media would naturally dig out Johnny Srouji, who was the first to join Dafeng Group.

"IOS, chip, Siri three department heads go to Dafeng Group, where does Apple go in the future? "

"Apple in the Tim Cook Era, Unretainable Talents"

"Apple, a company that trains talents for Dafeng Group"

However, it is said on the Internet that Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheye were recruited. In fact, they wanted to come. Meng Qian even conducted an interview with them.

"Both of you should have seen that the development of smart assistants for mobile phones has not been satisfactory in the past two years. From the beginning, the market focus has once become the representative of artificial mental retardation. Since the two still want to continue to cultivate in the field of smart assistants, don't Know what it's like to support your future or your beliefs?"

After the two looked at each other, Kittlaus answered, "To discuss this issue, I think we must first clarify that the reason why mobile phone manufacturers launch mobile smart assistants is that mobile phones need voice assistants, or because mobile phones are the most common voice assistants. Application scenarios.

At least from the current market point of view, most of the mobile phone manufacturers that have entered the market in the past two years are because of the latter, but we have firmly believed from the beginning that mobile phones need language assistants. "

"Why?"

"Because users need an interactive ability such as natural language, the reason why people are dissatisfied with mobile smart assistants in the past two years is mainly due to the maturity of technology and the scarcity of application scenarios."

Meng Qian frowned lightly, "So the two of you are pinning your hopes on the future maturity of intelligent voice assistant technology and the expansion of application scenarios?"

"That's what we've been doing at Apple, so to speak."

"Haven't the two of you considered more issues purely from the technology itself of the intelligent voice assistant?" Meng Qian nodded.

The puzzled expressions of the two let Meng Qian know that they didn't, "Do you two know which application has the highest usage rate and dependence on smart voice?"

"car?"

Meng Qian's frown was more obvious this time. For a moment, he was a little uncertain whether it was because the news from the two people was blocked or they didn't think in other directions. After thinking about it, he found a piece of data and gave it to the two people, "The smartphone assistant The average utilization rate of the market is 15.1%, the dependence rate is only 9%, and the average usage time of each user is only about 11 minutes per month.

The average usage rate of smart speakers in the market is 86%, and the average users who use them more than 10 times a week exceed 66%.

In the wave of smart home appliances that broke out last year, smart speakers have become the most accepted smart voice assistant in the market. Have the two of you considered the meaning behind this matter? "

Meng Qian once again confirmed from the expressions of the two that they hadn't considered it.

"As our personal device, the mobile phone has the most powerful mobility at present. Users only need to move their fingers to control the screen anytime and anywhere. Therefore, as the two said, there are not many scenarios that require Use mobile phone voice assistant.

At this time, once the voice assistant leaves the mobile phone, it has a broad application scene. The core attribute of the smart speaker is the control center of the smart home appliance. It is convenient to control the devices at home anytime and anywhere in the living room. In addition, voice interaction also avoids the problem of private screen privacy. In addition, the home is a private environment, and voice interaction has become the preferred interaction method in this field. .

Smart speakers make intelligent voice interaction change from auxiliary operation to dominant operation. "

Meng Qian paused, and continued after a little hesitation, "Smart speakers are now a relatively clear field, and another relatively clear field is indeed cars. The smart systems of cars will be popularized in the next few years. At least It will be popularized in our Chinese auto industry, and it will be accompanied by the core technology of in-vehicle intelligent voice assistant.

Our goal is to turn the car voice assistant into a control center for controlling the car.

But now I am more concerned about some fields that have just started to show. Have you watched this year's Dafeng Global Developers Conference? "

The two nodded.

"Those two should remember our VR helmets."

The two nodded again.

"We released several games for VR headsets this year, and there is one game that the two of you can take a look at if you have time. This is a game that focuses on interaction, and the way of interaction is voice dialogue."

Meng Qian didn't continue to share more, and it's almost the end of the story. After all, he is not his own employee. At this time, Kittlaus subconsciously asked, "So in Mr. Meng's view, the development of intelligent voice may go to mobile phones. process?"

Meng Qian sighed and shook his head, "It's not about de-mobile phoneization. Smart phones do not seem to be a suitable field for the development of intelligent voice now, but we believe that it will be in the future, because the end point of cloud intelligence is the Internet of everything.

First of all, I always think that there will be a breakthrough in the form of future smartphones. Secondly, even if the breakthrough in form is not considered, when the era of the Internet of Everything comes, smartphones will definitely enter the 3.0 era, and there may even be a direct revolution, just like feature phones. Just like the revolution of smart phones, it will definitely develop into a concept similar to the Internet of phones in the future.

In the stage of interconnected mobile phones, the mobile phone is no longer just as simple as a smart phone, its positioning will become an interaction center for all things, and at that stage, the voice interaction application of mobile phones will explode.

Therefore, the development direction of intelligent voice is not de-mobile phoneization, but IoTization. "

Still simply saying that the concept was not in-depth, the two fell into silence directly. Later, Meng Qian stopped talking about the issue of technological development, and directly connected with the two of them for a while about the technology itself.

So completely different from what the media speculated, Meng Qian was actually disappointed with the two, but Meng Qian still recognized the technical level of the two, plus it was more for the team. There are not many mature teams, and to be honest, Meng Qian actually likes people who come from Apple. They are all people who have endured the pressure of Jobs, and their ability to withstand pressure is stronger than most employees from American companies.

Although Meng Qian was disappointed, the two were full of expectations for the Dafeng Group, and finally got the exact answer that Meng Qian was willing to "take in". Cheye submitted his resignation report almost overnight, not wanting to delay even a day, and chatted with the team after returning to Apple Suddenly, 80% of the entire Siri team left, almost emptying out.

The first thing Cheye said to the team after returning to Apple was, "Ten apples can't give you what Dafeng Group can give you."

When Cheye returned to Apple, Meng Qian walked to the future laboratory.

"Mr. Meng." The people who greeted Meng Qian at this time were Liu Congyun, Yu Boyu and other students of the first class of Meng.

More than half of the students in the first Meng class have already started working in the Dafeng Group, and the outstanding sophomores have started to work here while attending classes, and the team leaders of these people are one year younger than Meng Qian The genius Yun Wei.

Yun Wei, who is determined to create a real intelligent robot, is now leading this group of Meng class students to attack smarter intelligent voice.

Perhaps what Cheye didn't expect was that the vision for the next generation of mobile phones was proposed by such a young team with an average age of less than 23 years old.

"Yunwei, do you know the Siri team?"

"Know."

"What's your impression of them?"

"Although the source of Siri's technology is the US Department of Defense, this team established in 2007 is still very famous in the industry. I went to Siri to study when I was in school. Unfortunately, Apple did not dig out the true nature of Siri at all. In the past two years after being acquired by Apple, the performance of the Siri team has not only disappointed the entire industry, but it is said that it has also been deeply involved in Apple’s office politics.”

"So they should be leaving Apple soon."

"What does Boss Meng mean?"

"At that time, the team will be handed over to you."

Yun Wei hesitated for a moment, "Cheye, they are all seniors in the industry, if you let me take care of them, will they be unconvinced?"

Meng Qian patted Yun Wei on the shoulder with a smile, "The premise of not being convinced is to be capable."

After finishing speaking, Meng Qian glanced at the students in the Meng class with relief, and couldn't help sighing, "The future of Dafeng Group depends on you."

Thank you Brother Hu \u0026amp; An Ye for your reward!